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Message:: [QUOTE="Spark1951, post: 2997459, member: 90692"]If you are asking "What caused this post-mint damage?",  I'll be kind and take a honest stab at it, no pun intended. The pocking on both sides appears to be from a very hard granular substance, maybe a variety of sand or tiny gravel.  Then, either singly each side, or put under maybe under 1/4 inch of the substance and with one strike, pounded with a hammer. They do make snake-shot for reloading bullets, and if you put less than 15 grains of gunpowder and don't stand too close with a .357 Smith and Wesson revolver, you might shoot a penny and wind up with a result like on your coin.  Shotgun shot is too big, .410 gauge varmint shells too, they would vaporize the coin.  More than 15 grains and the gunpowder turns the shot molten ( a plus if you are avoiding ballistic evidence). But less than 15 grains, around half, 7 or 8 grains, pushes the shot out the end of the barrel at half-speed, more or less.  The more I run this scenario around my head, the more this looks to be the case.  The size of the pocks are about the same as snake-shot. I've tried to be serious and kind to offer help.  But as mentioned earlier, no way that coin was inside any mint facility in that condition. I hope you accept my analysis. Spark[/QUOTE]